In August, 2006, S/V Toketie set out from Victoria, British Columbia and sailed South to Mexico, on to French Polynesia, Niue and Tonga following the well beaten path known as the 'coconut run' to New Zealand. In 2009 we sailed N to Fiji then on to New Caledonia en route to Australia! Toketie is now back home in British Columbia after a long passage via the N Pacific Ocean.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Parc Forestier!

We had a very long hike yesterday, about an hour and a half, much of it uphill! But the views were spectacular along the way! We were looking for a park with some rare birds in it. Turned out to be a zoo but they are breeding pairs of these endagered Kagu birds so we'll forgive them! The Kagu only live in New Caledonia and are on the WWF endangered species list. Known as the 'ghost of the forest', they are flightless and normally live in very remote locations.